Diego Rivera

Directions: Underline the words in the story as you
find them,
unscramble them and write them in the boxes below. Diego Rivera was
born in Mexico in 1886. He had a twin brother, but his brother died
when he was only a year and a half old. When he was six years old
Diego's family moved to Mexico City.
He enrolled in evening art classes at the Academy of San Carlos, but
was later expelled for participating in student revolts at the school.
When he was thirteen his father enrolled him in a military academy, but
that only lasted two weeks, and he enrolled in regular classes. Later
he went to Spain where he was awarded a four year scholarship to study
art in Europe. He is noted for the murals he painted. These were large
paintings which covered walls of buildings. In Detroit he proposed a
large mural, Man at the Crossroads in New York, he thought his
friendship with the Rockefeller family would allow him to put in the
scene a picture of Lenin, Communist leader in Russia. Nelson
Rockefeller asked him to replace the picture of Lenin with another
face, but Diego refused. He offered to put a picture of Lincoln on the
other side of the mural, but that offer was refused by the art
institute. They covered up the mural so people couldn't view it, and
the next year it was destroyed. Rivera later painted a smaller version
of the same mural in Mexico City.
He died of heart failure at the age of seventy-one.